"We'll Destroy Twitter" Blasts Turkish PM

It appears the madness is contagious. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, embroiled in an ongoing and huge corruption probe, lashed out at "international conspiracies" in a speech at a rally in Bursa. "We'll dig up Twitter - all of them - from the roots," he raged, "they'll see the power of the Republic of Turkey." With the looming elections - sure to fair and equitable to all - he warned he would "settle scores" after winning. Indeed...

Via Bloomberg,

“We’ll dig up Twitter and so on -- all of them -- from the roots."

"When people say, ‘Sir, the international community would say this or that,’ it doesn’t interest me at all," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says today, according to state-run Anatolia news agency.

Erdogan, quoted at a rally in Bursa, also says:

Court decision has been made regarding Twitter, without elaborating on the decision

The real world is populated by humans who don’t have complete information, who may have bad information, and some who just make mistakes. Many free market participants act irrationally, and they all act egoistically.

There is no reason for any "standards" whatsoever. If you have circulating gold & silver coins you don't need "standards". And if you put .gov markings all over the coins that's saying that the .gov writing, mottos and not the content that is important. Or your county's gold is somehow better than another country's gold. It's pretty easy to see how the posters here, their parents and grandparents were swindled.

Classical Erdogan citizenism: introducing extortion as being done to the benefit of the extorted and through the sacrifice of the extorter.

It is a mattering point because Erdogan citizenism citizens love to sell some social virtues like loyalty to nation, race, team or whatever group that be when it is obvious that the thing that has held them up together is that ganging up to extort, defraud, and plunder.

Other people, well, they know that Erdogan citizenism stands very high in the list of systems that roots deep in fantasical references...